It is a blessing when remarkable people that we admire make time to speak with us. Those shared interviews are reflections of us both, that’s why it’s imperative that what we ask them matters.
One of those persons we were blessed to speak with was actor, producer, and comedian Anthony Anderson!
During our conversation we asked him this GOOD QUESTION: Why is it necessary for a prominent male public figure to dress and act like a gentleman?
He answered, “Because they say chivalry is dead and men aren’t men anymore compared to what we once were.
Look at how men dressed during the era of the Harlem Renaissance. You never saw men without a suit and tie! We’ve gotten away from that. Our culture, in spite of Hip Hop, that’s who we are and what we’ve become.
You look at the baggy clothes, pants hanging off the butt, and all of that; and these are multi-millionaires. I’m not coming down on them, this is just the generation in which we live. Not to say they can’t dress up and won’t dress up, but these are images we’re portraying.
I’ve always wanted to be not really fashion-forward, but to represent myself as the man my parents raised.” |THIS.
[By M.J. Walker]
